Patents by Inventor Manika Varma-Nair

Manika Varma-Nair has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9006161
    Abstract: Disclosed are rheology modifiers comprising compositionally disperse polymeric compositions and/or crystallinity disperse polymeric compositions that may be useful in modifying the rheological properties of lubrication fluids, and methods for making such compositions. The compositionally disperse polymeric composition are formed from at least two discrete compositions of ethylene copolymers. The crystallinity disperse polymeric composition are formed from ethylene copolymers having at least two discrete values of residual crystallinity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhin Datta, JoAnn M. Canich, Liehpao O. Farng, Rainer Kolb, Vera Minak-Bernero, Eric B. Sirota, Thomas T. Sun, Mun F. Tse, Manika Varma-Nair
  • Patent number: 8859821
    Abstract: The invention relates to polyketone compounds and the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof, the use of said polyketone compounds and/or the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof as plasticizers, processes of making polyketone compounds and the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof, compositions comprising the polyketone compounds and/or the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof, and to articles formed from products of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Allen D. Godwin, Kenneth J. Buturla, Karla S. Colle, Gabor Kiss, Kirk C. Nadler, Abhimanyu O. Patil, Edris Eileen Pike, Ramzi Y. Saleh, Jon E. Stanat, Manika Varma-Nair, Stephen Zushma
  • Patent number: 8815992
    Abstract: Tetraesters of a C4-C5 aliphatic tetracarboxylic acid and OXO-alcohols and plasticized compositions containing said tetraesters are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Lisa Saunders Baugh, Enock Berluche, Karla Schall Colle, Manika Varma-Nair, Ramzi Yanni Saleh, Jon Edmond Randolph Stanat, Stephen Zushma, Victor DeFlorio
  • Patent number: 8614277
    Abstract: Isotactic polypropylene ethylene-propylene copolymer blends and in-line processes for producing. The blends may have between 1 and 50 wt % of isotactic polypropylene with a melt flow rate of between 0.5 and 20,000 g/10 min and a melting peak temperature of 145° C. or higher, and wherein the difference between the DSC peak melting and the peak crystallization temperatures is less than or equal to 0.5333 times the melting peak temperature minus 41.333° C., and between 50 and 99 wt % of ethylene-propylene copolymer including between 10 wt % and 20 wt % randomly distributed ethylene with a melt flow rate of between 0.5 and 20,000 g/10 min, wherein the copolymer is polymerized by a bulk homogeneous polymerization process, and wherein the total regio defects in the continuous propylene segments of the copolymer is between 40 and 150% greater than a copolymer of equivalent melt flow rate and wt % ethylene polymerized by a solution polymerization process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Gabor Kiss, Patrick Brant, Robert Patrick Reynolds, Jr., Aspy K. Mehta, Manika Varma-Nair, John W. Chu, Steven P. Rucker
  • Publication number: 20130131256
    Abstract: Disclosed are rheology modifiers comprising compositionally disperse polymeric compositions and/or crystallinity disperse polymeric compositions that may be useful in modifying the rheological properties of lubrication fluids, and methods for making such compositions. The compositionally disperse polymeric composition are formed from at least two discrete compositions of ethylene copolymers. The crystallinity disperse polymeric composition are formed from ethylene copolymers having at least two discrete values of residual crystallinity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhin Datta, Jo Ann M. Canich, Liehpao O. Farng, Rainer Kolb, Vera Minak-Bernero, Eric B. Sirota, Thomas T. Sun, Mun-Fu Tse, Manika Varma-Nair
  • Patent number: 8389452
    Abstract: Disclosed are rheology modifiers comprising compositionally disperse polymeric compositions and/or crystallinity disperse polymeric compositions that may be useful in modifying the rheological properties of lubrication fluids, and methods for making such compositions. The compositionally disperse polymeric composition are formed from at least two discrete compositions of ethylene copolymers. The crystallinity disperse polymeric composition are formed from ethylene copolymers having at least two discrete values of residual crystallinity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhin Datta, Jo Ann Marie Canich, Liehpao Oscar Farng, Rainer Kolb, Vera Minak-Bernero, Eric B. Sirota, Thomas Tungshi Sun, Mun Fu Tse, Manika Varma-Nair
  • Patent number: 8318875
    Abstract: This invention relates to processes for producing an isotactic propylene homopolymer having more than 15 and less than 100 regio defects (sum of 2,1-erythro and 2,1-threo insertions and 3,1-isomerizations) per 10,000 propylene units; a weight-averaged molecular weight of 35000 g/mol or more; a peak melting temperature of greater than 149° C.; an mmmm pentad fraction of 0.85 or more; a heat of fusion of 80 J/g or more; and a peak melting temperature minus peak crystallization temperature (Tmp?Tcp) of less than or equal to (0.907 times Tmp) minus 99.64 (Tmp?Tcp<(0.907×Tmp)?99.64), as measured in ° C. on the homopolymer having 0 wt % nucleating agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Exxonmobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Aspy K. Mehta, Manika Varma-Nair, Gabor Kiss, Robert P. Reynolds, John W. Chu, Steven P. Rucker
  • Publication number: 20120225998
    Abstract: Isotactic polypropylene ethylene-propylene copolymer blends and in-line processes for producing. The blends may have between 1 and 50 wt % of isotactic polypropylene with a melt flow rate of between 0.5 and 20,000 g/10 min and a melting peak temperature of 145° C. or higher, and wherein the difference between the DSC peak melting and the peak crystallization temperatures is less than or equal to 0.5333 times the melting peak temperature minus 41.333° C., and between 50 and 99 wt % of ethylene-propylene copolymer including between 10 wt % and 20 wt % randomly distributed ethylene with a melt flow rate of between 0.5 and 20,000 g/10 min, wherein the copolymer is polymerized by a bulk homogeneous polymerization process, and wherein the total regio defects in the continuous propylene segments of the copolymer is between 40 and 150% greater than a copolymer of equivalent melt flow rate and wt % ethylene polymerized by a solution polymerization process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY
    Inventors: Gabor Kiss, Patrick Brant, Robert Patrick Reynolds, JR., Aspy K. Mehta, Manika Varma-Nair, John W. Chu, Steven P. Rucker
  • Patent number: 8211968
    Abstract: The present invention relates to plasticized polyolefin compositions comprising a polyolefin and a non-functionalized hydrocarbon plasticizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Wu-Hsiang Yang, Wen Li, Bruce R. Lundmark, Chon-Yie Lin, Chia Yung Cheng, Bryan R. Chapman, Petra Eiselt, Galina Ourieva, Manika Varma-Nair, James N. Coffey, Sandra Denise Schregenberger, David J. Lohse, Norman Yang, Jeffrey Theodore Zudock, Robert Jay Wittenbrink
  • Patent number: 8173748
    Abstract: Provided is a heat-seal resin. The resin includes 5 wt % to 95 wt % of a first copolymer and 95 wt % to 5 wt % of a second copolymer based on the total weight of the resin. The first copolymer and the second copolymer together are 90 wt % or more of the total weight of the resin. The first copolymer includes a first monomer of an alphaolefin of 2 to 4 carbon atoms and a second monomer selected from a second monomer of an alphaolefin of 2 to 8 carbon atoms. The first monomer and the second monomer of the first copolymer are different. The first copolymer has an MFR of from 5 to 1000 g/10 minutes and a Tfm of 66° C. to 80° C. The second copolymer includes a first monomer of an alphaolefin of 2 to 4 carbon atoms and a second monomer selected from a second monomer of an alphaolefin of 2 to 8 carbon atoms. The first monomer and the second monomer of the second copolymer are different. The second copolymer has an MFR of from 0.5 to 5 g/10 minutes and a Tfm of 45° C. to 66° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: David John Lohse, Thomas Tungshi Sun, Aspy K. Mehta, Gabor Kiss, Robert Patrick Reynolds, Jr., John W. Chu, Manika Varma-Nair
  • Publication number: 20120108726
    Abstract: The invention relates to polyketone compounds and the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof, the use of said polyketone compounds and/or the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof as plasticizers, processes of making polyketone compounds and the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof, compositions comprising the polyketone compounds and/or the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof, and to articles formed from products of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Allen D Godwin, Kenneth J. Buturla, Karla S. Colle, Gabor Kiss, Kirk C. Nadler, Abhimanyu O. Patil, Edris Eileen Pike, Ramzi Y. Saleh, Jon E. Stanat, Manika Varma-Nair, Stephen Zushma
  • Patent number: 8138269
    Abstract: Isotactic polypropylene ethylene-propylene copolymer blends and in-line processes for producing them. The blends may have between 1 and 50 wt % of isotactic polypropylene with a melt flow rate of between 0.5 and 20,000 g/10 min and a melting peak temperature of 145° C. or higher, and wherein the difference between the DSC peak melting and the peak crystallization temperatures is less than or equal to 0.5333 times the melting peak temperature minus 41.333° C., and between 50 and 99 wt % of ethylene-propylene copolymer including between 10 wt % and 20 wt % randomly distributed ethylene with a melt flow rate of between 0.5 and 20,000 g/10 min, wherein the copolymer is polymerized by a bulk homogeneous polymerization process, and wherein the total regio defects in the continuous propylene segments of the copolymer is between 40 and 150% greater than a copolymer of equivalent melt flow rate and wt % ethylene polymerized by a solution polymerization process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Gabor Kiss, Patrick Brant, Robert Patrick Reynolds, Jr., Aspy K. Mehta, Manika Varma-Nair, John W. Chu, Steven P. Rucker
  • Patent number: 8115034
    Abstract: The invention relates to polyketone compounds and the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof, the use of said polyketone compounds and/or the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof as plasticizers, processes of making polyketone compounds and the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof, compositions comprising the polyketone compounds and/or the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof, and to articles formed from products of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Allen D. Godwin, Kenneth J. Buturla, Karla S. Colle, Gabor Kiss, Kirk C. Nadler, Abhimanyu O. Patil, Edris Eileen Pike, Ramzi Y. Saleh, Jon E. Stanat, Manika Varma-Nair, Stephen Zushma
  • Publication number: 20120022197
    Abstract: Provided are compositions, processes for making, and processes for using mixed triglycerides as plasticizers. Triglyceride plasticizers can be produced by recovery of linear or branched C4 to C13 aldehydes from a hydroformylation product, oxidation to linear or branched C4 to C13 acids with oxygen and/or air, recovery of the resulting acids, combining the linear or branched C4 to C13 acid with benzoic acid, toluic acid or a combination thereof to form a mixed acid blend, and esterification of the mixed acid blend with glycerol, wherein the total carbon number of the triester groups ranges from 20 to 25 and includes from 1 to 2 aryl groups for greater than or equal to 45 wt % of the plasticizer. Such plasticizers can be phthalate-free and provide outstanding properties including a suitable melting or pour point, glass transition temperature, low volatility, increased compatibility, increased hydrolytic stability, and excellent low temperature properties in a range of polymeric resins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Inventors: Jihad Dakka, Edmund Mozeleski, Lisa Baugh, Allen Godwin, Manika Varma-Nair
  • Publication number: 20110257317
    Abstract: Tetraesters of a C4-C5 aliphatic tetracarboxylic acid and OXO-alcohols and plasticized compositions containing said tetraesters are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY
    Inventors: Lisa Saunders Baugh, Enock Berluche, Karla Schall Colle, Manika Varma-Nair, Ramzi Yanni Saleh, Jon Edmond Randolph Stanat, Stephen Zushma, Victor DeFlorio
  • Publication number: 20110230680
    Abstract: The invention comprises lubricating compositions and hydraulic to fluids containing N,N?-diaryl-o-phenylenediamine compounds that impart good levels of oxidation inhibition in the lubricants and hydraulic fluids. The invention further comprises a method of making N,N?-diaryl-o-phenylenediamine compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY
    Inventors: Abhimanyu O. Patil, Jacob J. Habeeb, Michael E. Landis, Manuel A. Francisco, Manika Varma-Nair
  • Patent number: 7977286
    Abstract: The invention comprises lubricating compositions and hydraulic fluids containing N,N?-diaryl-o-phenylenediamine compounds that impart good levels of oxidation inhibition in the lubricants and hydraulic fluids. The invention further comprises a method of making N,N?-diaryl-o-phenylenediamine compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Abhimanyu O. Patil, Jacob J. Habeeb, Michael E. Landis, Manuel A. Francisco, Manika Varma-Nair
  • Publication number: 20110098390
    Abstract: Provided are compositions, processes for making, and processes for using mixed triglycerides as plasticizers. Triglyceride plasticizers can be produced by recovery of linear or branched C4 to C13 aldehydes from a hydroformylation product, oxidation to linear or branched C4 to C13 acids with oxygen and/or air, recovery of the resulting acids, combining the linear or branched C4 to C13 acid with benzoic acid, toluic acid or a combination thereof to form a mixed acid blend, and esterification of the mixed acid blend with glycerol, wherein the total carbon number of the triester groups ranges from 20 to 25 and includes from 1 to 2 aryl groups for greater than or equal to 45 wt % of the plasticizer. Such plasticizers can be phthalate-free and provide outstanding properties including a suitable melting or pour point, glass transition temperature, low volatility, increased compatibility, increased hydrolytic stability, and excellent low temperature properties in a range of polymeric resins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Jihad Mohammed Dakka, John Mozeleski Edmund, Saunders Baugh Lisa, David Godwin Allen, Manika Varma-Nair
  • Publication number: 20100273693
    Abstract: Disclosed are rheology modifiers comprising compositionally disperse polymeric compositions and/or crystallinity disperse polymeric compositions that may be useful in modifying the rheological properties of lubrication fluids, and methods for making such compositions. The compositionally disperse polymeric composition are formed from at least two discrete compositions of ethylene copolymers. The crystallinity disperse polymeric composition are formed from ethylene copolymers having at least two discrete values of residual crystallinity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Inventors: Sudhin Datta, Jo Ann Marie Canich, Liehpao Oscar Farng, Rainer Kolb, Vera Minak-Bernero, Eric B. Sirota, Thomas Tungshi Sun, Mun Fu Tse, Manika Varma-Nair
  • Patent number: 7807769
    Abstract: This invention relates to an isotactic propylene homopolymer having: more than 15 and less than 100 regio defects (sum of 2,1-erythro and 2,1-threo insertions and 3,1-isomerizations) per 10,000 propylene units; an Mw of 35000 g/mol or more; a peak melting temperature of greater than 149° C.; an mmmm pentad fraction of 0.85 or more; a heat of fusion of 80 J/g or more; and a peak melting temperature minus peak crystallization temperature (Tmp?Tcp) of less than or equal to (0.907 times Tmp) minus 99.64 (Tmp?Tcp<(0.907×Tmp)?99.64), as measured in ° C. on the homopolymer having 0 wt % nucleating agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Aspy K. Mehta, Manika Varma-Nair, Gabor Kiss, Patrick Brant, Robert P. Reynolds, John W. Chu, Steven P. Rucker, Peijun Jiang